The Pulpit Commentary on Ezra 2:65

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Two hundred singing men and singing women. Nehemiah says two hundred and forty-five, and so the apocryphal Esdras. Perhaps, in the great default of Levites, the services of these persons may have been used to swell the sacred choruses of the time (Ezra 3:10).

Hence, it may be, the mention of this otherwise unimportant fact.

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